Society and the World

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

This I know - that I know nothing.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.